Severance
admonition ! This article hold spoilers for Severance time of year 2 ’s episode 6 .
Severanceseason 2 make a strange revealing about Burt ’s past , which makes Lumon ’s recruitment methods even darker . Viewers who have been followingSeverancewould be well cognisant of how threatening the central company , Lumon , in the show is . The society not only uses its severance engineering to overwork the innies in the name of productivity but also resorts to utmost punishments to ensure its employee do not call into question the corporate bondage they are subjected to .
Although slight seems to be make love about how Lumon engage people and convince them to concord to get the severance function done , Severanceseason 2 ’s episode 6seems to provide answers . It feature a sequence in which Irving chat Burt and his partner , Fields , for dinner . What he have a bun in the oven to be a regular night out demand a foreign turn when Fields gets drunk and starts open up about Burt ’s history with Lumon . The pernicious clue beleaguer Burt ’s backstory in theApple TV+ sci - fi showreveal a lot about who he is and the twisted way Lumon used to have him on board a severed doer .
Burt’s Backstory Shows How Lumon Exploits Religion To Hire More Severed Workers
A Priest Convinced Him His Innie Had A Shot At Going To Heaven
theater reveals some strange inside information about Burt ’s Lumon history to Irving during their dinner conversation . He not only hint that Burt started work with the company even before he was lop but also reveals why he opted to get sever in the first place . The character reference recalls that he and Burt settle that Burt should get sever because they wanted him to have a shot at go to heaven . According to his anamnesis , they met a non-Christian priest who convinced them that the innies were different mortal all told .
The company seems to exploit one ’s fear of god by promising that their innies could aid them gain a good afterlife .
Unlike the outies , who had know and lived through many tragedies , the innies were virginal individual , disconnected from the crooked forces of the world . To escape the sinfulness of his past tense , Burt settle to get sever , hop that it would help oneself him redeem himself and allow him to land a lieu in heaven after death . Burt and Fields ' reasoning earn no sense to Irving , and truly so . It on the face of it instal that Lumon work with local churches to prey on vulnerable someone by win over them to join as sever workers .
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Inn Severance , Kier Eagan is regale like some variety of deity that the employees of Lumon bow down and idolize , but who in reality is Kier Eagan ?
The company seems to exploit one ’s concern of god by promising that their innies could assist them acquire a adept afterlife . Even if Lumon is not straight off mould with church service and priests , Burt ’s severance decision highlights how the company ’s influence extends beyond the incarnate world . With its rage - like following and mistaken promises , Lumon has somehow managed to seep into religious belief , manipulating the Kier town ’s spiritual beliefs to set up control .
Lumon’s Other Skewed Recruitment Strategies Explained
Lumon Not Only Promises A Better Afterlife But Also Offers Trauma-Healing
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InThe Lexington Letter , a former truck driver decides to get severed because Lumon pays implausibly well . Dylan , too , seems to have link the company because of his unfitness to keep a job in the outside world and Lumon ’s telling performance perks . With fibre like Mark , Lumon seems to call trauma healing , proffer an escape from grief and the atrocious memories of the past . However , unbeknownst to the severed workers , none of these promise are met .
The salary makes no difference to the innies because they can never spend the money their outies are earning . Mark ’s innie does not explicitly remember the source of his outie ’s grief , but as Petey suggests , his pain is often visible through his eyes even after he enters the cut off storey . Even by exploiting Burt ’s spiritual beliefs , Lumon somehow come to play god in the humanity ofSeveranceeven though it is not a true ghostlike or moral authorisation .
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Severance is a psychological thriller serial have Adam Scott as Mark Scout , an employee at Lumon Industries who undergo a " rupture " procedure to severalise his work and personal memory . However , as work and life personas mysteriously begin to collide , it quickly becomes clear-cut that not all is as it seems . create by Dan Erickson and organise by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle .
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